Americanswers! What are bump stocks? And would Biden step aside?
Americast
BBC
4.3 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 24 June 2024
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
More questions, more answers: Anthony and Miles disect how Democrats in the deep south lost the working class vote.
The team tackle who Trump’s current VP pick might be, and respond to the most asked question in the Americast inbox: whether if it’s too late for Trump or Biden to drop out of the race.
We also find out how politics is breaking up American families, and whether Western allies fear the return of Donald Trump.
GUESTS: Miles Taylor, former chief of staff at Department for Homeland Security
HOSTS: Anthony Zurcher, North America Correspondent
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This episode was made by Rufus Gray and Catherine Fusillo. The technical producer was Philip Bull. The series producer is Purvee Pattni. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Hello there, it's Anthony here in Washington, D.C. |
| 0:07.1 | ready to answer some more of your AmeriCast questions. |
| 0:10.7 | And join me today, my your friend the friend of the |
| 0:13.9 | podcast miles tailor welcome back miles is great to have you on |
| 0:17.2 | Anthony great to be with you as always my friend miles is the former chief of staff |
| 0:21.4 | the department of homeland security in the Trump administration and now he talks to people about UFOs or at least that's what you were doing last week, right? |
| 0:29.4 | That is right. We had Dr. Offi Lobe here in Washington, D.C. a Harvard astrophysicist who's probably best |
| 0:37.8 | known for the scientifically legitimate hunt for extraterrestrials in the universe but I got to tell you Anthony |
| 0:45.1 | given how hot it is in Washington and how contentious our politics are I was |
| 0:50.5 | hoping Avi would tell us he'd found the aliens and they could beam us up and get us out of here, |
| 0:55.0 | but turns out not just yet. |
| 0:57.0 | Yeah, I'm ready to find a cooler climate, a cooler planet. |
| 1:00.0 | All right, let's dive right in and get to some of our questions, because I know you guys have been asking us a ton. |
| 1:05.2 | The first one is from Jean in Scotland. |
| 1:08.1 | Hi, AmeriCast. I have lived in the UK for 45 years. |
| 1:12.8 | When I was a girl in the American Midwest, educated people certainly voted Republican and |
| 1:18.3 | manual workers voted Democrat. |
| 1:20.6 | I remember the deep south of the US as being very Democrat and now the opposite seems to be true |
| 1:26.7 | Can you please tell me what triggered this change in social class related voting preferences and when it began to happen. |
| 1:35.0 | So I guess we have to start with a little bit of a history lesson about when the |
| 1:37.4 | Republican Party started in this country. |
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